Lotto S. Martino
Az. Agricola Racemus
Place: Rutigliano C.da S. Martino
Coordinates: 40°58'28.54"N,16°59'1.69"E
Above see: 140 m
Variety: Uva Vittoria
Planted: 2000
Availability: August
Certified Production: GlobalGap n.039/633/1/07
Field Operations (05/08/2010)
Excluding lots of Victoria completely covered by the "advance", which is already started blooming, in all other site suffers a lag screw that has accumulated due to the low temperatures of late winter early spring ..
On the other hand, although daytime temperatures can reach above 25 ° C, night drop sharply.So on average, in the Rutigliano area, the phenological stage of the grapes in the network are in the "separate grapes" period, with the spine well relaxed and vegetation growing the grapes that will soon, in mid-May, beginning of flowering.
Despite the rains that have been ever present that live vegetation wet until mid morning, there are no phenomena of Peronospora infections.
Field Operations (03/16/2010)
In fact, the heavy winter rains have made compact the soil, which thanks to this work, will return to trigger its exchange capacity.
The tendrils of vine, after the phase of "tying dry"
on the tent structure, appears in Sleeping stage but in some varieties, such as Red Globe,
the branch starts to "cry"... which means that the plant
has taken over the growing season and from them little gems
will be visible.
To protect the buds from excessive wind and hail
that could break, we are attending with the closure
of screen protection.
